ABOUT A BOY | SEBASTIAN VETTEL

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*August 2011*

With her suitcase next to her and her backpack on her shoulder, Camilla ringed the doorbell. She flew from Finland to Switzerland after having a phone call with Sebastian, telling him that she needed to get out of Finland for a while. It hadn't taken Sebastian even a second to think about or he suggested her to come to his place for two weeks straight. So there she was. In Switzerland, telling a lie to everyone she knew about that she was going on holiday with a friend. The door opened and a smiling Sebastian appeared in front of her.

"Hey," Camilla smiled immediately back.
"Hey, sorry that I couldn't pick you up from the airport," Sebastian apologized as he went to embrace her. "I just got back. Here, come in." Sebastian moved to the side to let Camilla in.
"Don't worry about it." Camilla smiled as Sebastian took her suitcase inside. She walked after him inside and closed the front door behind her. She looked around as she never been to Sebastian's place before. He put the suitcase in front of the stairs and Camila did the same with her backpack.
"Want something to drink?" he asked. Camilla nodded.
"Sure." They went to the kitchen and sat down to drink something. The usual conversation about; talking how the flight went, was the first real conversation they had. Afterward, they talked about how Kimi was doing as Sebastian didn't had much or any contact at all with the Finn since he went to do rally instead of Formula One. Meanwhile the topic of why Camilla actually had to get out of Finland for a while was still being avoided. Sebastian had it on his mind since the phone call they had, but he wanted her to start about it. He didn't want to scare her away by being so curious about it. The only thing Sebastian did know was that she needed some distractions, and there was no better person to ask than Sebastian. Sebastian had this beautiful garden that also looked over the lake. There was a lot of green surrounding the back garden, that you almost expected for him to have a gardener to take care of it all. Surely he had no time to take care of it all? But the whole place where he lived was just beautiful. It was a shame that Sebastian didn't come here that often, as he had explained. With the traveling from race to race and having to be in England where the factory of RedBull was, he almost had no time to be in Switzerland. It was a real shame, Camilla thought to herself as Sebastian had explained the story.

On the first day, they kept it low key , staying in at Sebastian's home and watching some movies. On the second day, they went to do some groceries as Sebastian had waited until Camilla was here so he could find out what she liked. On the third day, Sebastian convinced Camilla to go on a rowing boat in the lake. Camilla wasn't so sure about it as she got remembered about those childhood memories with Kimi, Rami, and a rowing boat.
"You know every time I get in one of those boats, I get pushed in the water by either Kimi or Rami," Camilla said as Sebastian had already on foot inside the boat and other still on the grass. He laughed.
"Do I look like one of your brothers to you?" Sebastian grinned as he kept his hand straight in front of Camilla. Hoping that between now and a minute she would take his hand and trust her.
"Alright then, but if you push me in I will drag you with me," Camilla warned, but finally took Sebastian stretched out hand. Sebastian laughed as he helped Camilla get in the boat. He held her hand tightly until she sat down. Sebastian pushed the boat away from the side and stepped in himself. "Be careful," Camilla told him when he was about to sit down while the boat wobbled a lot and she had to grab the sides of the boat in the hope that it will not flip around. 

 "There we go," Sebastian grinned as he sat down opposite of Camilla. He took the two pedals and started to push them more in the middle of the lake. Camilla kept watching Sebastian and Sebastian kept smiling towards Camilla, meanwhile there was a beautiful surrounding around them. They were paying so much attention towards each other that Sebastian didn't realize he bumped into a rock. A wave of water got into their boat, making both Sebastian and Camilla wake up out of their staring contest.
"Sebastian!" Camilla yelled out but laughed not long after.
"Oops," Sebastian laughed with Camilla as he turned his body to look at what he bumped into. "Well, you should have warned me. You're the captain and therefore you have to tell me to go either left or right."

"Okay well, you had to go a bit right a minute ago, uh my right, of course." Sebastian rolled his eyes amused. After that little incident they kept ongoing, but this time without any incidents. Sebastian stopped pedaling in the middle of the lake and put them inside the boat before taking his backpack on his lap.
"I got us some lunch," He said as he opened the bag and pulled out a sandwich. He gave her the sandwich he knew she was gonna like. Camilla smiled as she took the sandwich from him.
"You thought of everything." She said more as confirmation. Sebastian shrugged as he put his backpack down again. It went quiet for a while, while they both enjoyed their food. That was until Camilla sighed and with that sigh she got the full attention from Sebastian. 

"I have to tell you something Seb..." she started, looking down at her hands. Sebastian could already guess the subject. The reason why she really was here. Sebastian took her hand in his and caress the back of her hand slowly. "I mean... I told you that I had to get out of Finland for a while, but I never told you why. And you've been so kind to me and let me stay here. You deserve to know why."
"Don't feel like you're forced to tell me, Camilla. I love having you around here and I would've let you stay here for whatever reason," Sebastian explained as he felt like it was important to tell her. Camilla finally looked up at him and the corners of her mouth started to curl again. He did the same, but when she started talking again his face went immediately serious again.

"You remember Vic, right?"
"Your boyfriend yes." He said, getting remembered that in fact, she had a boyfriend and that, maybe, holding her hand like this might be inappropriate. With those thoughts, Sebastian wanted to let go of her hand, but Camilla put her other hand on top of his. He looked at her with surprise, but she was not saying anything about it. Instead kept going telling him the story.
"Ex-boyfriend actually," she said, making Sebastian's eyebrows raise up.
"Oh," Sebastian said surprised, although a voice in his head wanted to celebrate after hearing that. "Can I ask what happened?"
"I found him being intimate with this girl, Elise. He told me it was nothing, but she was the same girl he left me for when we both went to university. Penn saw them before at a cafe and she told me that they were sitting very close like they were on a date, but I didn't think much of it. How stupid was I, hmm?" Camilla said. She tried to keep her smile up. But it didn't stay for long and instead, she looked down to her feet. He hated seeing her hurt and he hates that guy, Vic or whatever he was called, for hurting her. Thanks to that guy she was now sitting in front of Sebastian ready to cry at any moment and Sebastian hated him for making her cry like that. Sebastian put his hand on her knee.

"He doesn't deserve you if he thinks he can do that. You deserve so much better," Sebastian said as he put his finger under her chin to make her look straight into his eyes. "Someone that will tell you every day how much he loves you and will show you it every single day. I would never treat you the way he does, I promise you that."
"Seb," she whispered to him, but she luckily didn't look away. He moved his hand towards her cheek that turned red. "Stay with me?" he asked.
"W-what?" Camilla asked confused.
"Don't go back to Finland, stay with me longer than these two weeks. Come with me to my next race." Camilla let out an uncomfortable laugh. It was an uncomfortable laugh as she rather not reject him. But she had to. She had to go back to her job. She took his hand that was resting on her cheek and slowly moved it towards his lap. Sebastian followed their hands with his eyes.
"I wish I could, Seb." She said, showing him a sweet smile.
"Why wish if you can?" he asked back. He really wanted to show her that there was someone that would treat her the way she deserves to be treated. He was that person and he doesn't want it to be over after two weeks. He really wanted her to come with him.
"I have work," she said quietly. She wanted to take her hand back, but Sebastian didn't let her and actually intertwined them. He looked at her eyes, but her eyes were focused on their intertwined hands. 
"Take more time off, please?" he asked, but he knew that it was already a hopeless attempt or she would have accepted it the first time. He knows that of Camilla.
"You know I can't Seb," she said, giving him a sweetly smile. "But we can enjoy these two weeks together? If you still want that at least?"
"Yeah, okay... Okay..." Sebastian said as he nodded. But he still felt a bit hurt that she didn't accept his offer. He only had two weeks with her... Where those two weeks enough? No, was the answer. It wasn't.